CHI CHIEN.

Born in 1974 Taipei, Taiwan.

 

EDUCATION

2002 Chinese Culture University-Graduate Program In Fine Art, Western Painting

2008 National Taiwan University of Arts-The Graduate School of Plastic Arts, M.F.A

1996 Chia-Nan Junior College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy

 

SOLO EXHIBITION

2015 Art Central 2015 “Passing Through The Gardens”, Affinity for ART, Hong Kong.

2014 Prima Facie Exhibit: Park, Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

2013 In-betweeness / Cortex and Shadow, YAMI ART SPACE, Taichung, Taiwan.

2003 Chi Chien, Fernado, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

IMPORT GROUP EXHIBITION

2015“ ART Taichung”, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taichung, Taiwan.

2015“ Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong 2015”, Affinity for ART, Hong Kong.

2015“To dear Exhibition ”, Dear deer, Taipei, Taiwan.

2015“2015 Kaohsiung Awards”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung.

2014 “Generatioin of Complex”, National Taiwan University of Arts, New Taipei, Taiwan.

2014“Asia Contemporary Art Show”, Yes Art air Gallery, Hong Kong.

2014“YOUNG ART TAIPEI”, Bo Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.

2013 “ THE WINGS”Double Solo Exhibition”, Bo Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.

2013 “Austronesian International Arts Award”, Xinying Cultural Center and National

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Tainan and Taipei, Taiwan.

2012 “Austronesian International Arts Award”, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan.

2012 “Drawing”, National Taiwan University of Arts, New Taipei, Taiwan.

2012 “The Art Exhibition of New Taipei City”, Cultural Affairs Department, New

Taipei City Government, New Taipei, Taiwan.

2012 “Super Novart”, Freedom Men Art Apartments and YAMI ART SPACE,

Taichung, Taiwan.

2010 “ The Beauty Of Art”, Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan.

2009 “The Art Exhibition of Taoyuan”, Cultural Affairs Bureau Taoyuan County

Government, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

2008 “The Art Creation Award of Taoyuan ”, Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taoyuan

County Government, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

2008 “ Floating Formosa”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

2008 “Exhibition of 321”, Open-Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan.

2008 “2008 Collage Art Awards Exbition”, National Taiwan University of Arts,

Taipei, Taiwan.

2007 “Cortex Differance- Painting intermediary of Contemporary”, National Taiwan

University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

2006 “Ten Viewpoints- Suspension interface of diverse puality”, National Taipei

University Education, Taipei, Taiwan.

2005 “The moment of Taiwan- A Soliloquy of Society Edge”, Pacific Cultural

Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan.

2005 “The Art Exhibition of Taipei County”, Cultural Affairs Bureau Taipei County

Government, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

CURATOR OF EXHIBITION

2007 “Cortex Differance- Painting Intermediary of Contemporary”, National Taiwan

University of Arts, Taipei.

 

SELECTED AWARD

2015 Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2015

National First Prize in The Mixed Media, The Art Exhibition of New Taipei City, 2012

The First Prize in The Mixed Media, The Art Exhibition of New Taipei City, 2012

National Second Prize in Oil Painting, The Art Exhibition of New Taipei City, 2012

New Taipei Fine Arts Exhibition nationwide oil painting selections, 2012

Austronesian International Arts Award selectioins, 2012

The 27th Sulpture Art in The Art Exhibition of Taoyuan selections, 2009

Award of Thesis, Fine Art College, National Taiwan University of Arts, 2008

Award of outstanding create, Fine Art College, National Taiwan University of Arts, 2008

The 6th Art Creation Award of Taoyuan selections, 2008

The Prize in Thesis in S-An Art Award, 2008

The Art Exhibition of New Taipei City oil painting selections, 2005

 

COLLECTION

2015 Image Temple, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.

2015 Central Theatre: Animal Portrait-The Bird NO.3, Central Theatre: Animal Portrait-The Bird NO.4,

Live in Time, Collection of Art Bank, Ministry of Culture.

2013 Central Theatre: Animal Portrait-The Hound, Central Theatre: Animal Portrait-The Bird NO.2,

Collection of Art Bank, Ministry of Culture.

 

RESIDENCY

2014.01-12 iMeet Artist Arbor

 

LITERARY WORK

2008 Painting in the Expanded Field: Practical Applications for painting , sculpture, and building of

Mario Merz’s Installation of Igloo, S-An Cultural Foundation.

2008 The passage of passing through “painting” : Mario Merz’s Installation of Igloo, Master’s thesis in

National Taiwan University of Arts-The Graduate School of Plastic Arts, M.F.A

之後之後 - 寫於個展《穿越後花園》

–齊簡

 

狹路相逢的對峙汽車，像兩隻面紅耳赤的過橋山羊；蛇形的路人穿過間隙，路旁放滿各式盆栽，大大小小，等待花開⋯⋯。

 

在工作室的途中，我總在小巷間穿行，擁擠的巷道內，居民把花盆植栽放置在馬路上。這些門前盆栽所形成的「花園」景象，是現實，是形式，也是空間鬥爭的文化測度；為了展示，也為了佔領。

「花園」是戰火蹂躪後的想望，一種公領域與私領域相互干涉的體制邊緣。小致陋巷鄰里，大致國族爭端，土地正義總緊緊連繫著政治權力。

茉莉花、野百合、太陽花⋯⋯，花是自然，花是性器。世界上許多文化中，花是女性的象徵，也寓意女性的全然奉獻6。我們可以說，每一座花園都是人類的「失樂園」，它象徵著人的源頭，一切的開始7。在字典裡，「garden」有兩層意義，一是花園，而另一個是公園的意思（a public park with flower…）8。在花園之「前」加了一個「後」字，成了後花園（back），我特別暗示一種較為隱蔽的私有領地，也意指「後」（post-）所難以言明的模糊語境。

 

在「後」的花園裡，即使人為征服了自然，也難免花開花落，滄海桑田。花總是花，同樣飛機也總是飛機。飛機「飛入」，飛入的現實轉化了視覺想像，這種想像活動即是時間，這樣的時間理解，只需直觀，並同時看著我們何以同時觀看一切事物，何以在這一切事物之間，創造出一種處境。

飛機穿越花園，是時間裂隙中的身體臨在，是自己與對象接觸的批判、嘲諷，或是宗教召喚，它相應著出於磚石沙塵的捻花煉金9。誠如屋外玩耍的男孩，手拿著一架飛機，在花朵上方凌空穿越，恣意翱翔。

 

當飛機穿越花園，若自己不在飛機裏，就正默默隱身－在「背景背後」。

 

 

6「我姊妹，我新婦，乃是關鎖的花園，禁閉的井，封閉的泉源。」引自聖經（歌 4：12）。

7「耶和華神在東方的伊甸園立了一個園子，把所造的人安置在那裏。」引自聖經（創 2：8-9）。

8 花園相對於先前 2014 個展《表面證物：公園》，弔詭畫廊，高雄。

9「拈花微笑」，出自佛教禪宗公案。「鍊金術」：容格（Carl Gustav Jung）認為，古代的鍊

金術實際上是一種以自己的心靈發展為參照，對自然界現象的投射行為。

 

 

 

 

 

In back of the back

– About the Exhibition Passing Through The Post-Garden

Chi Chien

 

In a narrow alley, cars come from two opposite directions and get stuck in the middle. No one is willing to surrender, like the two goats standing with unyielding persistence on the narrow bridge. Meanwhile, the passerby find a meandering path among the cars to squeeze through the bonsais on the both sides. These bonsais are in various sizes, all waiting for the blossom…

 

On my way to the studio, I always pass through these narrow alleys – which even become narrower because of the bonsais put on the alleys. These bonsais on the alleys create an image of a “garden.” It is the reality, the form, and the cultural measurement to battle for space. It is here to demonstrate and to occupy.

A “garden” is what one fancies for after the devastating war. It is the margin of the authorative system where the public and the pravite intevene each other.

No matter the system is as small as a neighborhood or an internaitonal conflict, there is no way to separate “land justice” from political power.

Jasmines, wild lilies, sun flowers… -- flowers belong to nature, and flowers are the sexual organs. In many cultures, flowers symbolize not just women but also the absolute sacrifice of women.1 We can say that every garden is humans’“paradise lost.” It signifies the origin of humans, the beginning or everything.2

 

According to the dictionary, The English word “garden” has two meanings. One is “an area of ground where plants (such as flowers or vegetables) are grown” and the other is “a public park with flowers.”3 Here, I add a prefix “post / back” in front of the word “garden,” so the back garden, a private space not open to the public, can also be realized as “post-garden,” an ambiguous term which cannot be specified.4

In the “post/back” garden, even though humans conquer Nature, we still can neither define the world nor the certainty of life. Flowers will always be flowers, just like airplanes will always be airplanes. Airplanes “fly into view,” but the reality of “flying into view” transforms the visual imagination. The action of imagination is “time.” It takes nothing more than our intuitive perception to understand “time”. Meanwhile, it watches how we observe everything simultaneously and how a situation is created among all these things.

 

Airplanes fly through the garden. The presence of body exists in the gap of time. It is the criticism, mockery, or religious evocation between the contact and the self. It corresponds to the spiritual reflection in a grain of dust, the life derived from stone brick, the alchemical imagination, and the sudden realization when

seeing the flowers in Buddha’s hands.5 A boy is playing outside the house.

The plane in his hand is being released from gravity and soaring freely among the flowers.

 

When the airplane passes through the garden, if you are not inside the plane, then you are hiding behind – in back of the background.

 

Exhibit : Park, held at Crane Gallery, Kaohsiung.

1 “A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a garden locked, a fountain sealed.” Quoted from

Bible (Song. 4-12)

2 “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had

formed.” Quoted from Bible (Gen. 2:8).

3 Here, I use the first definition of “garden” as a comparison to my exhibition in 2014 Prima Facie

4 Footnote by translator: in Chinese, “post” and “back” are the same word.

5 The story of “Buddha holding up a flower and Kāśyapa smiling” comes from Zen kōan, a

collection of parables used in Zen practice; the ancient alchemy , in Carl Gustav Jung’s theory, is

an imagination of Nature based on one’s spiritual development.